If you’re happy in a dream, does that count?
ARUNDHATI ROYIf you’re happy in a dream, does that count?
ARUNDHATI ROYStates have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence – so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only – or well that’s excessive – usually, the resistance.
ARUNDHATI ROYI am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.
ARUNDHATI ROYThe people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution.
ARUNDHATI ROYWhat came for them? Not death. Just the end of living.
ARUNDHATI ROYAnything’s possible in Human Nature …Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.
ARUNDHATI ROYThe revolution cannot be funded. It’s not the imagination of trusts and foundations that’s going to bring real change.
ARUNDHATI ROYNationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.
ARUNDHATI ROYTerrorism is the symptom, not the disease.
ARUNDHATI ROYUse your art to fight.
ARUNDHATI ROYThings can change in a day.
ARUNDHATI ROYSome things come with their own punishments.
ARUNDHATI ROYTo annihilate indigenous populations eventually paves the way to our own annihilation. They are the only people who practice sustainable living. We think they are relics of the past, but they may be the gatekeepers to our future.
ARUNDHATI ROYPeople who promote the free market and growth are far more romantic, and far more ideologically driven and blinded by their vision than somebody who goes in and comments about the beauty of a forest or the stars in the sky.
ARUNDHATI ROYHuman rights are fundamental rights, they are the minimum, the very least we demand. Too often, they become the goal itself. What should be the minimum becomes the maximum – all we are supposed to expect – but human rights aren’t enough. The goal is, and must always be, justice.
ARUNDHATI ROYBut remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all, it will marginalize and eventually victimize women. And a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.
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